WKBW: Paul McCartney Is Alive And Well - Maybe, 1969 (1:02:16)

… Paul McCartney is alive and Well – Maybe …
[Description by John Bisci] 50,000-watt WKBW (1520) in Buffalo, N.Y., orginally ran this on Halloween night, 1969, when the “Paul is Dead” theory was in vogue. They re-aired it on Halloween in 1972. They did the same with War Of The Worlds, repeating it a couple of years after the original. PLEASE NOTE: This recording had limited frequency response and a very high noise level. Music was edited for technical reasons. Comments about WWKB and the voice-tracked cluster station in Buffalo, circa 2003, belong here. The Voices on this broadcast are KB DJs Danny Neaverth, Sandy Beach, Stan Roberts and Program Director Jefferson Kaye. Neaverth, Roberts and Beach are long-time Buffalonians. Kaye did some voiceovers for NFL Films. I remember trick-or-treating with my cousins in North Buffalo and carrying my little white GE transistor radio with me so I could hear it. (I “earned” that little radio by selling raffle tickets for St. Lawrence Church.) I was 12 — and horrified when Jeff Kaye told us that our hair and nails grew after we died!

Welcome to the new ReelRadio!

This site is now operated by the North Carolina Broadcast History Museum. 

We want to thank the board of ReelRadio, Inc. for their stewardship since the passing of the founder Richard Irwin in 2018.  It has not been easy and they have maintained the exhibits for future generations to enjoy.

I met Richard Irwin, aka Uncle Ricky, when we were freshmen at East Carolina University.  We both had worked at local stations in our hometowns.  No one was more passionate about radio, especially Top 40 radio, than my friend Richard. 

Our goals with this site are to preserve the exhibits and make them available free of charge for people to enjoy.  Over time, we hope to add some airchecks to the site.  This will not happen immediately.  Time and resources will determine the future of new exhibits. 

Many thanks to the web folks at the Beasley Media Group for countless hours of work.  Again thanks to the board members of ReelRadio, Inc. for their faith in us. 

Richard Irwin’s hope was that his site would live on long after his passing. He said, “I hope REELRADIO will survive as my contribution to the ‘radio business’. The business is allowed to forget me, but the business should never forget the great era of radio that we celebrate here”.

We remember Richard and we thank him. If you enjoy this new site, we would appreciate a contribution. We hope you enjoy the new ReelRadio!

Carl Davis
Trustee
North Carolina Broadcast History Museum